6-8-20 leaders in the fdl black community call for change

Two leaders in the Fond du lac African American community say the conversations have to continue locally following protests across the country in the wake of the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis.   Maurice Craine helped organize a Peace Walk in Fond du Lac last weekend.   Craine says there has to be a true, unfiltered,  sitdown conversation between law enforcement and the black community.  “I don’t want to lose my life over a simple traffic violation,”  Craine told WFDL news.   “Where do I put my hands so it’s not seen that I’m reaching for something when I’m actually just getting my wallet out to present identification to an officer.  Those are the conversations that have to take place.”   Arletta Allen was elected in April to the Fond du Lac city council.   “Even myself as an African-American woman in the city of Fond du Lac, if I’m going to get pulled over for anything,  I still have moments where I pull myself back and try to brace myself for what comes next because I know the injustices that are out there,” Allen told WFDL news.    Allen moved to Fond du Lac  nearly three decades ago from Mississipi when she was just ten years old.   She says it was difficult for her to breath watching the video of George Floyd suffocate with an officer’s knee on his neck.

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